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As the first African-American head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson is already a historic figure. Yet, it's her response to the threat of climate change that will ultimately decide her legacy. On April 17, Jackson's EPA issued an endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, concluding...
Pedro Rojas is the sort of wealthy Mexican who's usually in control of his world. "I don't panic or scare easily," says Rojas, a business owner and rancher from the Mexican border city of Juárez. But last year narcos, or drug traffickers, moved into his upscale neighborhood...
Environmentalists, rejoice! Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a report classifying carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants, which, thanks to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, gives them the authority to begin regulating carbon emissions. And just in time to celebrate Earth Day.
The truthiness of the films aside, True Life Adventures can be credited for being the first to present nature in a quietly empathetic way - wildlife weren't a threat, but an integral part of our lives and worthy of protection - that would later resonate with the modern environmental movement.
It is bitterly ironic that the policies of privatization and the free-market system forced on Africa by the Western-controlled World Bank and IMF (that have devastated many African countries) are now being reversed in the U.S. Whereas poor, suffering Americans need to be protected from the full consequences...